Scientists leveraged a global camera network and doorbell cameras to track dozens of meteorites to their asteroid families.

"The fall of Aguas Zarcas was huge news in the country. No other fireball was as widely reported and then recovered as stones on the ground in Costa Rica in the past 150 years." ...

Though meteorites fall with the same frequency around the world, scientists say, they are especially easy to spot in places like this, where they stand out against the beige expanse. Finding the rare ...

Lake sturgeon spawning has been observed in Missouri for the fourth consecutive year, indicating successful wild reproduction ...

In an article published in the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science, an international team of researchers describes the circumstances of the fall and show that mudball meteorites are not ...

It occasionally produces a meteor storm, with several hundred meteors falling per hour – and has done so for millennia. Back in 1803, a journalist in Richmond, Virginia, estimated an hourly rate ...

Much of what scientists know about the early solar system comes from meteorites—ancient rocks that travel through space and ...

SEATTLE — When you think of meteor showers, you may think of the impressive Perseids in August. But April had a falling star display of its own as well. The Lyrid meteor shower peaked Monday night.

In The Meteorite Hunters, journalist Joshua Howgego takes a broad look at these rocks that fall from the skies, discussing, for instance, their complex chemistry and role in the dinosaurs ...